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Hot sand and molten metal, Extra Time has it all

From the dark red sand used in the wooden mould boxes at the Long Shop to the red hot sand on the beach at First Light, Extra Time celebrates Suffolk’s grassroot footballing heritage.

Machine parts and moulds

Today’s sessions were all about model making and creating moulds, both in plaster, using the clay discs created by the children last week, and new moulds for casting at the next session.

Production lines and football sides – it’s all team work

Sculptor Ellie Rodwell and the Extra Time players explore the notion of teamwork, as experienced on production lines and in football teams.

Layers of history

The Extra Time adult team use old photographs of Leiston Works football teams to produce a beautiful series of cyanotypes.

Tracings, blue prints and cyanotypes

The Extra Time teams examine some old blue prints at Leiston Long Shop and then create their own.

Double elephants and laundromats

Match of the Day

The children return to the Long Shop Museum, to match the workers with the players and create their own Extra Time football game

Extra Time wins in Leiston

The Extra Time team at Leiston Primary School listen to a story about creating a football pitch, recorded in 1985, and examine newspapers going back to the beginning of the last century. Then they take a glorious walk past the allotments to visit Leiston Long Shop Museum.